Amy R. reviewed on 3/19/2011 + 5 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

I'm willing to read something else by Coetzee, figuring he must have been awarded the Nobel Prize for some reason - but I didn't care for this book. Setting aside the fact that the protagonist and narrator is a highly unsympathetic character - and a lot of readers, especially female ones, may not be able to get past that - I didn't feel that the other characters were fully developed. Instead, they seemed to symbolize various political viewpoints in an allegory of contemporary South Africa.

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